Multiple Yang–Mills solutions in every topological component

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Let Ak(A0)\mathcal{A}_k(A_0) denote the components of the space of connections with boundary value A0A_0, and let (Dϵ)(\mathcal{D}_{\epsilon}) be the Dirichlet problem for Yang–Mills connections with coupling parameter ϵ>0\epsilon>0. For example, in A0(A0)\mathcal{A}_0(A_0) one may consider connections of the form

A=A‾ϵ#1ϵ(1-instanton)#1ϵ(−1-instanton).A=\underline A_\epsilon\#\frac{1}{\epsilon}(\text{$1$-instanton})\#\frac{1}{\epsilon}(\text{$-1$-instanton}).

Multiple-solutions conjecture. For a rather general family of boundary values, multiple solutions to (Dϵ)(\mathcal{D}_{\epsilon}) should exist in each component Ak(A0)\mathcal{A}_k(A_0), for every k≠±1k\ne\pm1, when ϵ>0\epsilon>0 is sufficiently small.

The conjecture extends the paper's multiple-solution result to all topological components, including constructions involving a 11-instanton and a −1-1-instanton in the component A0(A0)\mathcal{A}_0(A_0). Establishing it would require arguments similar to those in the paper, together with longer and more delicate calculations.

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Takeshi Isobe and Antonella Marini, “Small coupling limit and multiple solutions to the Dirichlet Problem for Yang-Mills connections in 4 dimensions - Part II”, arXiv:1005.5386 (2010).

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